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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-07-21

DTOkCu
UNIT RULE.-At the Democratic County
Convention held in Frederick on Saturday
last the delegates named to represent Fred
erick County in the State Convention which
meets in Baltimore on the eth inst were in
structed to vote for Col ". Baughman
and the unit rule was adopted as majority
of the twenty five delegates named vote, so
will be cast the six votes of Frederick Coun-
ty.
RAPID PRoGREss.--The Reservoir has
been completed and about $500 of the $500
feet of trench necessary to reach town is
now ready for the iron and the plummer.-
The Mellert Iron Company failed to deliver
the iron according to contract, else the iron
would be to-day laid to the X roads at the
southern limits of our town.
The weather has been favorable and the
digging good on about $500 feet pillow
has been used and except an occasional
rough spot, tins implement hasprcparci the
earth for the shoveler, saving probably hun
dreds of dollars in the matter of excavating
When they strike the town however, it is ex-
pected that some rough digging will be en-
countered September first will probably
find the mains in.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-07-21

Remember the Parade to-day Thursday }
Read Lowcnstein Bros. Il Cos. Dbl. col,
adv. in another column.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-07-21


VISITING CHARACTERISTIC. Henry Kins-
Ter, of Baltimore, who has been handling the
principal output of butter from the Walkers
vile, Mlddletown and Red Spring creamer-
les named and was highly pleased with their
management. He stated to News reporter
that there is no better butter coming to Bal
timore than that from Frederick county.
THE REBATE.-The Western Maryland
Railroad Company has issued circular in
which the following rebate is offered to socie-
ties, Sunday schools, lodges and other bodies
running excursions to Pen-Mar or other
points of interest along its line: If so to 80
tickets are sold, 8 per cent; if 100 to 149
tickets, 10 per cent: if $50 to 1919 tickets, Is
per cent. if 200 or over. 20 per cent.
-TH IVA
The members of the congregations of the
Wo0dshoro' charge of the Lutheran church
have erected handsome monument in the
Woodsboro' cemetery over the remains Of
their late pastor, Rev. D. M. Lamotte.
MIR. Joseph F. Beacht has leased the old
"Central House" property IN Frederick, u.s.
ed for some months past AZ the City Hotel
Annex, and about the first Of next month
will open the same as first class hotel
HaNcy ReQsster.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-07-21

The Sun shining through convex piece
of glass, piece of broken reflector, set some
shavings on fire in box in Mr.. Wisotzkey's
ward on Saturday last.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-07-21
LOWENSTEIN BROS. & CO.,

avoid
put and cut them we do not wait until the season
the while
ARE II offspring Goods We will quote youa few
prices to what
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-07-21

Fer i0dAj00! LocaA see 2nd pare.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1887-07-21

A most vexatious delay in the arrival of
the water mains has caused suspension Of
work the date Of shipment promised has
now passed seventeen days.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-09
AInnanese IIlemisl,s shon.

The quaint old man whose loyal adj
herence to the customs of his ancestors
me such an interesting Illus
ration both of old Japan and old
Britain, was a seller of curOyalzie, ]. e.,
carbOniZed animals; in other words,
animals reduced to charcoal, and ported
in small covered Jars Of earthenware,
to be sold as medicine for the sick and
suffering. Formerly all these animals
were kept alive in the back promises,
and customers selected the creature
for themselves, and stood by to see it
killed and burned on the spot, so that
there could be no deception, and no
doubt as to the freshness of their
charred medicine. Doubtless some in
sensible foreign influence may account
for the disappearance of the menagerie
of waiting victims and their cremation
ground; now the geological back yard
has vanished, and only the strange
chemists shop remains, like a we'll
stored museum, wherein are ranged
portions of the dried carcasses of
dogs and deer, foxes and badgers, rats
and mice, toads and frogs, tigers and
elephants. The rarer the animal. and
the farther it has travelled, the more
precious, apparently, are its virtues.
From the roof hung festOOns Of gigan-
tic snake-skins, which certainly were
foreign importations from some land
where pythons flourish, Japan being
happily exempt from the presence of
such beautiful monsters. / saw one
very fine piece Of a skin, which, though
badly dried and much shrunken, meas
ured twenty-siZ inches across. but it
was only a fragment ten feet in length,
and was being gradually consumed,
inch by inch, to lend mystic virtue to
compounds of many strange ingredients.
[ was told that the perfect skin must
have measured very nearly fifty feet in
length. / saw another fragment twenty
two feet long and twelve inches wide
this also had evidently shrunk eonsid-
srably in dying, and must, when in life,
have been a yery fine specimen.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-09

Though the problem of converting
heat directly into electricity has re-
ceNed much attention, as its great i'm
pOrtance would warrant, no thermo
battery has yet been capable Of return
ing one per cent. Of the energy repre-
scented by the fuel applied to it. Mr..
Edison, however. in his @pyromagnetic
generator Of electricity" as described
at the recent meeting OF the American
Association for the Advancement Of
Science, believes himself able to get
electric power directly from coal with
an economy equal to, and probably
greatly exceeding, that of the indirect
method of ordinary dynamos. His appa-
ratus is based on the principle that the
magnetic metals-iron, nickel and CO.
balt-lOse their magnetizability when
moderately heated. the heating and
cooling of these metals in a magnetic
field causing variations in their magnet
ism which produce an electric current
In a surrounding coil of wire.-ATbaT-
sac TraDeler.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-09

Forty-fve years of observation have
shown that the ffty-three stars cata-
Iogued by Besse1 IN the Pleiades nearly
all have a drift in space opposite to our
own. This drift is doubtless only APP
parent, being due TO the motion of the
solar system. Six of the stars do not
partake Of this backward movement on
account of their extreme remoteness,
while two appear to move more rap
idly than the others on account Of their
.nearness to MS. The former are so dis
tant that the path, moderately esti-
mated at q, 600, 600, OOG miles in length,
traversed by the sun during the forty
i've years since Besseps measurement,
becomes too small to be detected from
them. -ATkG1lsGl TrayeleT.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-09
STILL a1orHER's BOY.

Do you think I've forgotten the day
carried him nc my bre1arf
Many fair children I've loved since then
But j think that loved him best,
For ha was our drst-born child. John,
And have not the heart nor VIII
10 love him leaas whatever may CONS
He's nay boy still
remember when he was q little lad
How he used % climb on my knees
How proud We were OF his beauty,
OF his wit and mimicry
And know quite well he's q man now,
With a Wild aud stubborn viii;
But Hheteysr be is TO you john
Hes my boy sril
BE was just like sunahine about the house
In the days Of his happy youth;
You know we said that with all his faults
He had courage and love and truth.
And, though he has wandered far away,
I'd rather you'd say no i'll
he % sure 20 come back to his mother;
Hes my boy still
know there was never a kinder heart,
And can remember today
How often he went with NE apart
And Ens.t at my knee Co pray.
And the man viii do as the boy did
Sooner or later he will
The Bible is warrant for that-so
He's my boy stllli
A mother can feel where she cant see.
She is wiser than any sage
Ny boy was trained in the good old WAY.
shall certainly get my wage.
And though be has wandered far away,
And followed his WayWard viii,
] know whatever. wherever he IS,
Hes my boy stilli
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-09

The relations between employer and
employees on a sugar estate are unique.
They are the nearest approach IN
America to a feudal system. Not a foot
of land do the labOrers own. Yet their
right to homes and labor on an estate
is a sort of unwritten law, so binding
that they are seldom sent away except
for very serious cause. They regard
the mules and implements Of the plant
er as to some extent their own, using
them to cultivate their gardens and to
haul their fuel In directing the
plantation work, he seldom uses any
harsh words of command; talks rather
in kindly tones, scolds a little if needs
be, but in rather a parental fashion /;
asks opinions at times from swarthy
old @uncles" who have standing on
the place as faithful men and experts
in cane-cuIture; knows the strong and
weak points in the character OF every
man in his employment. Indeed, his
rule is so mild that a stranger to plant
alton life wonders how the uncouth
mass of black laboreTs is held together
and disciplined so as to produce favor
able industrial results.-Ibe Century.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-09

The nRreWness Of the sphere IN which
q Woman's social life is confined is the
mother OF a vice or fault, from which only
women OF exceptionally strong intslleets
and large interests are Lrss, VIZ, the habit
of treating the smallest matters as ex-
Hsmely important, interpreting a signif-
canoe into accidental tEides and ezaggar-
ating small faults and slips into serious
otfenses. This tendency Is intensified by
the more acute sensibility OF the sex. which
makes them feel-tO use q SMILES if the
prick Of pin were as deep and as danger
Gus as stab from a dagger and again,
from the idleness Of many women, whether
unmarried or married, and not engrossed
IN the cares Of a fertile motherhood, which
leaves them not only to attach undue i'm
portGnce to whatever happens within their
own circle, but to lntermeddle, whenever a
fair opportunity offers. with other peoples
matters, and to gather up loose talk from
all quarters. which easily Epens into lies
and Islander. On this besetting sin Of q
section of the sex St Paul has touched, IN
a weH-known passage Il Tim. v. 49,, with
the trenchant phrase Of which he was so
great q master; IN excavation of which we
would only remark that this intermeddling
proceeds not merely from the horror, which
all nature has of a vacuum, but from that
quiet sympathy with anything vital, which,
as 1t is one of the strongest instincts, so it
leads to all the most beneficial agencies of
the sex.
The women are more given to petty envy
ings, and jealOusies, and riyalries than
men, IS a remark to which / have often
listened with pain-nOt from men. but
from women; good specimens Of the sex.
Such UnhOly jealOusies are found among
all competitors for public favor, both men
and women, especially artists and other ex-
hibitOrs; and, if it be true in any degree
that women, who live in a certain sense by
exhibition of their charms-as men, no
doubt, have their strong points, which they
are nothing 10th to parade-are more given
than men to petty jealousies and evil
speaking Of one another, it can not be be-
cause their moral nature is less noble, bat
| because Of the very fact which We have
] Just been accentuating: that their range OF
| thought is more limited, their iudgmentIess
cool, their sensibility more fretful, and
their leisure more abundant. Occupation
/ is the best specific against the entrance of
| all petty passions. A busy man Will forget
an unkind expression hastily dropped,
| which an idle woman viii seize upon and
nurse into the dimensions of a studied
/ ahront.-PrOt. y. Stuart BlacBie.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-09
THE LAND ROOM
Prices way up Among the stars-Ths
Dangers 10 be Avoided

Prices way up Among the stars-Ehs
Dangers 10 be Avoided
The wonderful land boom Of the past
year has excited very general attention.
1t has not been confined to any one 10
cahty, for, as Cbauncy NJ DepeW Lsid,
after a visit to the west, cat nearly
every one Of the trade centres We visited,
We found eItr8YagBPt and Utenable
views Of prospective real estate values"
OF course the vast army Of zen en-
gageds IN one way or another in these
enterprises, were loath TO believe their
views either extraEagant or untenable.
Both they and DepeW are right to a GER
tain extent.
Land values have rapidly and Perma
nently increased In this country in the
last fifty years. This is especially no
lCeable In the dumping" west, along
the lines OF new railroads.
Thousands OF new cities have sprung
up, with a growth perfectly astonishing,
and great fortunes have been made In
real estate.
Land values must continue toincrease,
generally, because the available area Of
land IN the country is now so small as
to render inevitable its entire absorption
in a few years.
One hundred years from now, at the
present rate Of increase, or population
viii be 400 to the square mile-twice as
many as IN the largest European ma
lions.
To be q safe Speculation, It is ueesssa-
~ to study cause and effect, as the pro
Prletors OF Warmers safe cure did In pre-
pairing their remedy. Its success is
great because It reaches The cause Of dis
tress. Every drop Of blood coursing
through the system passes through the
kidneys. If they are in sound working
order, the blood is purified; if deranged
poison, that should be eliminated, Is car
RED through the blood channels to every
part Of the system. The poison attacks
the weak points, and so come the lOng
list OF resulting ailments. Remedy the
cause, put the purifying organs in health
and the whole system becomes healthy
There must be q solid basis for a land
boom, however, or it viii inevitably rs.
suit IN a crash, entgiing great losses and
subsequent injurious depression.
Two thousand dollars per front foo
for land in some cities might be Judi
eiOus investment, in others, very indis
Greet. 1t is wise TO make investments o.
a character indicating a permanent, i
slower, growth and increase Of value.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-09
Liquor habit vanuuished.

The prOprietor5 Of the Moxie Nerve Food,
that Is creating such an excitement all over
the country as a remedy for the liquor hab-
1t and nervous exhaustion, or results of over
work. talk the best sense yet. They say the
nervous system is the seat Of life, and con-
trolls the functions Of the body. The func-
hoas of the body are to take nutrition and
get rid of corresponding amount of old
and Impure material. If the nerves are
strong enough to do this, We are we'll, and
the blood puriies itself every day; if not, we
are Ill. This is the whole system of health
IN a nutshell.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-09

FANNY DAVENPORT Is said to be the
strongest woman on the stage. She has
a tremendous physique and now en-
Joys the best of health. A short time
ago, however. she was completely
broken down. Mrs. Langtry comes
next on the list of shong actresses. 1t
is said that she can outwaIk the major
ity Of men and 1t takes a good deal of
travelling to tire her. Nine Modieska,
although very frail looking, is physi-
cally strong. She thinks that she
developed her muscle as a young girl
by breaking the Ioaf-sugar for the fam
ly, and IN after years by chuI ming but
ter on her ranch In California
ARTIFICIAL oyster culture is being
largely practiced IN many parts OF Chi
ma. Bamboo poles are plastered with
old shells and planted on mud fats be-
tween low and high-watsr mark until
the oyster spat develops into tiny oys-
ters when they are transp orted- When
taken up six months after the bamboos
are found to be covered with we'll
grown biFalTss
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-09
a Donbtfnl ComnIIment.

White men who travel among people
who have seldom or never seen white
persons before are annoyed by the GU
riosity which their appearance excites.
This curiosity, moreover, Is, strange to
say. not always attended with absolute
admiration On this point a traveller
in Abyssinia bears some amusing testi-
mOny.
A crowd Of soldiers collected around
us aud amused themselves with face
tious remarks on our appearance, such
as "Cat's eyesl" Monkeys hairI"
What nice red morocco their skins
would make for a sWord-sheathl !"
These expressions were afterWard
translated to me, for in those days
was not well up In the "chah" of the
language, and. having myself q tOler-
ably good opinion of my appearance, /
judged that theremaTks must be highly
complimentary.
Some years after this I asked a per
son with whom 1 had become intimate,
and who had never seen any white man
but myself, what impression my first
appearance had made on him
He answered me very simply that j
resembled a rather good-loOking Abys-
sinian who had lost his skin YOUTHS
COmpGRjon-
WHEN you are mailing down carpets
and pound your finger it's time TO Try
q new tack
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-09
Rheumatism

According investigations. Is caused by excess Of
Tactic acid in the blood This ad attacks the hbrous ts
sues particularly the joints, and thus the local
manifestations disesse-pans and aches in the back
and shoulders and in the joints Il the knees ankles hips,
and wrists. Thousands OF PEOPLE b4ye found in Hoods
parilia positive and permanent Tor rhsuua
sIn This medicine, by its purifying and valizag action,
nsutraes activity Of the blood and also builds up and
siren CITIZENS the whole body.
Il was laid up for six months with rheumatism and used
many kinds medicines without good results till Of
nav nsighpors told 70 take Hoods sarsapara- When
had used half bottle felt better and asE taking
bottles think entirely cured have not had
tack Of rheumatism since taking Hoods Sarzaparilla
E1eESE H. DIXON. BossyiIle. Staten Island.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-09

The old suppOsition that each con
centric ring marks years growth has
been proven to be erroneous by Obser-
vatiOns during recent years. These re-
suits were yielded by trees whose ages
were positively known at the time Of
cutting: Pig hickory II years old
showed Is rings; green ash, 8 years,
II rings; burr oak, 10 years
q rings chestnut, years,
s rings; peach, s years, g
rings; chestnut oak, d years, Is rings
Kentucky coffee tree, 10 years, IA
rings-4TEallsalU TraUeler.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-09
q HYnnderfuI go ~ lIedicine

Known aud used by Physicians all over the
world. SCOTr's EMULSION not only gives
flesh and strength by virtue of It's own nu-
lritiOus properties, but creates an a. petite
for food that builds up the wasted body.
have been using Scott's Emulsion for seY-
sral years, and am pleased with its action.
My patients say it is pleasant and palatable,
and ali grow stronger and gain flesh from
the use of it. I use it in all cases of Wastin 2
Diseases, and it is specially useful for child
rem when nutrient medication is needed, as
in Marasmus. - T w. PIERCE, NJ. D., Knox
Vile, Ala.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-09

TIE best proof Of the material prog
ress of the negro race IN this country
is the amount Of wealth that they
have accumulated. There nearly
are nearly 5000, 900 people Of African
descent in the United States, and their
accumulated wealth is estimated at
500, O00. OOO In this age Of money
getting it might seem from a business
standpoint that this Is a small sum for
5000, 600 people to boast of. but one
must remember that less than thirty
years ago more than tWo-thnds OF the
negroes were slaves
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-09
The Recent Growth Of the Argentine
RepublIe.

During the last twenty-five years the
population of the Argentine Republic
has increased 154 per cent, while that
Of the United States has increased but
79 per cent, and the city of Buenos
Ayres Is growing faster than Mime
apOis or Denver. Last year 1t re-
ceived 124, 600 immigrants from Eu-
rope, and the natural increase is very
large. The newcomers are mostly
Italians and Basques, with a sprinkllng
of Germans, Swiss, and Swedes. To
tempt the immigrants into the agricul-
tural districts the Government has
enacted land laws even more liberal
than ours. Each head Of a family is
entitled to $50 acres free, and as much
more as he desires to purchase, to a
limit of 1, 800 acres. at about 70 cents
an acre IN our money. Or the settler
may acquire !, 800 acres free after five
years by planting 200 acres to grain
and a acres to timber. Free trans
portation from BuenOs Ayres to the
place of location is grsnted to all
settlers and their families, exemption
from taxation for ten years, and colon
LZatiOn societies are organized which
issue bonds guaranteed by the GOrern-
ment, the proceeds of which are
loaned to the settlers N sums not
greater than $1,000, for five years,
with interest at six per cent, upon the
cultivation of a certain amount of land
and the erection of a certain amount
] of improvements. The results of these
! benefcent laws are conspicuous. In
! 1856 nearly 100000 acres of wild land
were plOughed and planted. One firm
| in BuenOs Ayres sold 1900 reapers
manufactured IN the United States,
and other firms q lesser number ;
! elevators are being erected upon the
/ banks of the rivers, from which wheat
! is loaded into vessels for Brazil and
/ Europe, and the average crop was
/ twenty-five bushels of wheat to the
acre.-W5LljaHl E. Curtis, 57J HaTpeT'S
/ lLuntstIla
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-09
TtchinrPnes

SYaEPrOlIs-d intense itching and
singing; most at night; worse by scratch
ing. If allowed to continue, tumors form,
which often bleed and ulcerate, becoming
very. sore. SWayne's Ointment stops the
itching and bleeding, heals liberation, and
in many cases removes the tumors. 1t Is
equally ef6cacious IN curing all skin Dis
eases. Dr.. SWayne q Son, Projectors, Phil
adeIphia. Swayns's Ointment can be OBJ
tanned OF druggists. Sent by mail for so
cents.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-09

Der of the New York Journalists Club,
writes from Colombo, CeTlon, that the Sal
Tation Army has attacked the island, but
hat the soldiers are regarded there with lit
lie favor.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-09

When Baby was sick, NC gave her Castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for CastOria,
When she became Miss, she chung to CaatOria.
FEhsn she had Children, she gave them CastOriA
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-09
ssConstantIy Hawking and spitting.''

THOMAS j. RUSHING, Esq, z902 Pine Street.
St. Louis, No, writes: % / was q great sufferer
from catarrh for three years. at times I could
hardly breathe, and was constantly hawking
and splitting, and for the last eight months
could not breathe through the nOstrila. 1
thought nothing could be done for me. Luck
lily, 1 was advised to try DR.. Sage5 CatarTh
Remedy, and am now a well man. / believe
it to be the only sure remedy for catarrh now
manufactured, and one has only to give it a
fair trial to experience astounding results and
q glnrmaupuf5 nIIra. %
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-12-09
Three Bottles Cure Catarrh.

Ell ROBBINS, EilnydH P. O., C0Ilmbia Co.,
Pa, says: My daughter had catarrh when
she was I'VE years old, very badly. / saw DR..
Sage's Catarrh Remedy advertised, and pro-
cured bottle for her, and soon saw that IL
helped her; a third bottle effected a perna-
nent cure. She is now eighteen years old and
sound and hearty"